Bottled-drink-vending machine



J. H. CARROLL. BOTTLED DRINK VENDING. MACHINE, APPLlCATlON FILED MAR. 29-, 1 921. RENEWED MAY 4.1922.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR\29,192I- RENEWED MAY 4,1922.

Patented June 13, 1922.

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JAIMES H. CARROLL, 0F CHARLDTTE, NORTH CAnROLTNA.

BOTTLED-DQRINKVENDING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. PatQntQd m ne 113 1922,

Application filed march 29, 1921, Serial No. 456,594.- Renewed May 4-, 1922. Serial Iilo. 558,4:28.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. CARROLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Charlotte, in the county of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Bottled-Drink-Vending Machine, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel coin-operated machine for vending bottled drinks; to provide a novel arrangement and construction of compartments for holding the bottles, to provide novel means for discharging and delivering the bottles; to provide novel means for cooling the bottles, and to provide a machine capable of performing the many steps required with a relatively small number of parts of such construction that the device will not easily get out of order; and to provide the novel combination and arrangement of arts hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inivhich- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine; R4 Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2-2 of Fig. 3 is a Vertical section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on line di of Fig. 2; i

Fig. 5 is a vertical section on line 55 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 6 is a horizontal section on line 6--6 of Fig. 2;

ig. 7 is a horizontal section on line 7-7 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 8 is a detail perspective View of the coin-operated mechanism.

Like characters of reference designate like parts in each of the several views.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I provide a main casing 1 on which is a suitable removable cover 2, said members preferably being filled with non-head conducting material. The casing l is provided with a rear door 3, alfording access to the interior of the apparatus. Referring to Figs. 3, 6, and 7,1 provide a suitable central compartment 6 removably mounted in the central,

part of the apparatus and accessible through the rear door 3. Door 3' is mounted by means of hinges 57 and preferably insulated casing 1 and is provided with a suitable lock 58, as shown in Fig. 4. As illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, I provide a vertical compartment 4: in which a supply of the bottle drinks B are placed. They rest on an elevator member 7, which is attached to an interior-ally threaded nut 18 that is engaged by screw threaded vertical shaft '16, by means of which the ele- Vator 17 is raised to discharge the bottles '7 into the bottle delivery chute 7 from which they are then discharged into one of the openings 20 in a suitable delivery drum 21. 1 provide suitable means 28 for rotating the de-.

gear 30, meshing with a small gear 29 which latter gear is mounted on the shaft 16 that extends through the supply compartment. The ratio of gear 30 to gear 29 is two to one so that the platform. 32 is moved down at Y one half the speed at which the elevator 17 is raised. The receiving compartment 25 is twice the width of supplying compartment so that it will accommodate all the bottles that are first placed in the supply compartment. I provide a suitable preferred form of coin releasing mechanism consisting of an upper coin chute aa'through which a coin is conveyed to the U-shaped end 43 of a pivoted locking lever 35. This locking lever is provided with a depending finger 36 and is also provided with an extended end 40 which members overbalance the other end of the lever and normally hold it in the position shown in Fig. 8, ready to receive the coin. T provide a disk 38, affixed to the screw threaded shaft 31 above the large gear 30, and this disk 38 is provided with a slot 37, into which the finger 36 of locking lever 35 normally extends thereby locking the threaded shaft 31 in stationary osition. In this locked position the exten ed end 40 of lever 35 abuts against the shoulder 42 of an inclined segmental cam strip 4.1 positioned as I shown in Fig. 8. Locking lever 35 is mounted on a suitable pivot 39 which in turn is mounted on the journal 34 which is suitably mounted on the disk 38 or on the upper end of shaft 31, substantially as illustrated. I provide a suitable offset slot 49 opposite the upper coin slot 44, and adjacent the mouth 47 of the lower coin chute 48, for the urpose of preventing a reverse rotation o the screw threaded shaft and the locking member 35 mounted thereon, extended end 40 being too long to pass the portion of the shield 47 which is not ofl'set. T rovide a suitable lower coin chute 48 which discharges the coins delivered to it from the U-shaped guide member 43 to locking member 35, which lat- I ter member is overbalanced by the weight of the coin. The chute 48 discharges into a suitable coin receptacle 55 as shown in Fig. 2, which receptacle is provided with a suitable door 36 which if desired is provided with any suitable look.

I provide a suitable crank 11 mounted on shaft 9, which is supported in bearings 10. Mounted on shaft 9 I provide a bevel gear 14 positioned to mesh with a similar bevel gear 15 mounted on the upper end of the screw threaded shaft 16 as shown in Fig. 5. The means for rotating the delivery drum 21 consists. of the handle 28 mounted on shaft 27, which is provided with a gear 26 meshing with gear 25 on drum shaft 24 to which drum 21 is affixed so that the drum 21 is rotated by turning the hand wheel 28, shaft 27, gears 26 and 25 and drum shaft 24 to which drum 24 is ,aflixed as illustrated in Tfurther provide a suitable rod of suitable length and position to be operated by elevator 17 when that member approaches the upward limit of its movement and reaches an elevated position where its last bottle is discharged. I provide a suitable offset slide 62 attached to or integral with rod 60, and

movable into the opening 61 whichis posi-- tioned in the path of coin slot 54, to close the slot against the insertion of further coins when the filled bottle compartment is empty. I further provide a Suitable coil spring .63 suitably attached to rod 60, and bearing against stop 64 to normally hold the rod 60 and its slide member 62 in their lowermost position, as illustrated in Fig. 5.

In operation the coin is first deposited in the upper coin chute 54 as will b under stood by referring to Figs. 5 and 2. The coin rolls into the U-shaped part 43 of the locking lever 35, thereby overbalancing the latter and tilting it downward so as to disenga e the finger 36 from its engagement in the s 0t 37 of disk 38.. The com thus unlocks the engagement of the locking lever with disk 38 so that shaft 31 to Which it is aiiixed can be rotated. After dropping the coin the customer turns the crank 11 which rotates the shaft 9 and through 14 and 15 rotates the large gear 30 and shaft 31 to which that gear is affixed, and simultaneously rotates the small gear 29 and threaded shaft 16, at twice the speed at which threadedshaft 31 is rotated. In consequence of this operation the elevator 17 is'raised in the bottle supply compartment 14,- and the platform 32 in the bottle depositing or receiving compartment 5 is lowered, but only for one half the distance that the elevator 17 is raised. The customer makes two turns of the crank handle, thus bringing the threaded shafts 31 and 16, the gears 30 and 29 and 'the disk 38 back into their former positiilon in which position one complete rotation as been completed, and bringing locking lever 35 again into its original position, as illustrated in Fig. 8, in which position its downwardly dependent finger 36, which dropped again into the opening 37, as soon as it passed the end of segment member 41, is again brought to a stop by its abutment against the shoulder 42 of the cam segment 41, ready for a new operation on the depositing of a new coin. The turning of thecrank by the customer at the same time discharges one of the bottles from the supply compartment 4 into the delivery chute 7,

further' rotate the drum so thatthe bottle will be discharged into the. receiving compartment 5 as soon as it passes the front por tion of the casing of the vending machine. As the receiving compartment is twice the width of the suppl compartment it is always capable of ho ding the same quantity 103 tents will be discharged into a cup, and then.

of bottles as the supply compartment since its platform moves downward at one half be speed that-the elevator of the supply compartm'ent is elevated in the course of the operation of the vending machine.

In connection with the coin mechanism I may and prefer to provide a suitable weight supporting arm 57 either integral with orv afiixed to the locking lever 35, for holding any suitable weight,-such as ordinary metal washers, whereby the lever 36may be adusted for release by the weight of any predetermined coin or coins.

As illustrated in Figs. 3 and 7, I may provide suitable perforations 56 in the slotsof scribed in claim 2 vertically movable the ice compartment 6, for the purpose of more effectively cooling the compartments containing the bottled drinks.

What I claim is 1. In a bottled drink vending machine, the combination of a vertical supply compartment for full bottles, an adjacent receiving compartment for empty bottles and a bottle delivery drum operable by the customer for delivering the bottles into position to be uncapped and for the discharge of their contents into a cup and thereafter for discharging empty bottles into the receiving compartment, manually operated means in operative connection with the means for discharging bottles from the supply compartment into the delivery drum, and coin operated locking and releasing mechanism adapted to release the manualiy operated means above de; scribed on the deposit of one coin.

2. in a bottled drink vending machine the combination of adjacent andvertically alined supply and receiving compartments for filled and empty bottles respectively, a second set of adjacent and vertically alined supply and receiving compartments for filled and empty bottles respectively, an ice chamber interposed between the aforesaid sets of compartments and an outer insulated casing enclosing all of the aforesaid compartments.

3. in combination with the apparatus described in claim 2 vertically movable platforms in the respective vertically alined supply and receiving compartments, means for simultaneously lifting the platform in the supply compartmentand lowering the platform in the receiving compartment, a bottle delivery mechanism for the delivery of a bottle to the customer whenever the aforesaid platforms are'operated.

4. In combination with the apparatus delatforms in the respective vertically a ined supply and receiving compartments, means for simultaneously lifting the platform in the supply compartment and lowering the platform in the receiving compartment, a bottle delivery drum for the delivery of a bottle to the customer Whenever the aforesaid platforms are operated and coin op .erated locking means arranged to release the aforesaid mechanism from locked position whenever a coin is deposited.

5. In a bottled drink vending machine, the combination of a vertical supply compartment, a vertical receiving compartment, vertical movable platforms on each of said compartments, screw threaded shafts on which the respective platforms are mounted, gears operatively connecting said screw threaded shaft, bottle delivery mechanism adjacent the upper portion of the supply compartment and arranged to receive a-filled bottle therefrom for discharge to the customer scribed in claim 5 coin operated locking mechanism nominally locking the screw threaded shafts against rotation, but releasing same from locked position when a coin is deposited. p

7 In combination with the apparatus described in claim 5, manually operated bottle delivery mechanism positioned to receive the bottle delivered from the supply compart ment, whereby to permit the customer to move the bottle to the desired position for uncapping and for subsequently discharging its contents.

8. In combination with the apparatus described in claim 5, manually operated bottle delivery mechanism positioned to receive the bottle delivered from the supply compartment, whereby to permit the customer to move the bottle to the desired position for uncapping and for subsequently discharging its contents, said mechanism including a slotted casing, permitting the neck of the bottle to protrude from the drum delivery device.

9. in a bottled drink vending machine, the combination of a vertical supply compartment for filled bottles, an adjacent vertical receiving compartment for empty bottles, said compartment being of greater size than the vertical supply compartment, vertically movable platforms in each of said compartments, operatively connected means for receiving and lowering said platforms simultaneously and in a reverse direction of the platform in one compartment relative to the platform in the other compartment, said means being arranged in ratio equivalent to the difference in proportion of the size of the compartments, manual operated means for actuating the aforesaiif platform operating device, and slot coin operated locking and releasing mechanism forlocking the a pa-' ratus against operation until a coin has een.

deposited and thereupon releasing same for operation for the discharge of one bottle.

10. combination with the apparatus described in claim 9, an'ice compartment positioned in proximity to the aforesaid compartments said ice compartment having perforated walls.

11. in combination with the apparatus described in claim 9 a bottle delivery chute positioned adjacent the upper end of the bottle supply compartment and adapted to receive a bottle when discharged therefrom, said chute being positioned in alignment with the bottle receiving compartment, bottle delivery mechanism into which the bottle is dischargeable from the aforesaid chute, and means for manual operation of said bottle delivery mechanism by the customer,

' ment therebeneath, and which compartment 'is aligned with the chute and delivery mechanism above described.

12. In a bottled drink vending machine, the'combination of a supply compartment for bottles, a delivery chute aligned with the receiving compartment, vertically movable platforms in each of the aforesaid supply and receiving compartments, means for the simultaneous raising of the platform in the supply compartment andthe corresponding lowering of the platform in the receiving compartment, means for permitting the customer to manually actuate the aforesaid platforms upon the depositing of a coin, coin operated mechanism nominally look ing the i aforesaid actuatin mechanism against operation and permitting its release for operation to discharge one bottle on the deposit of a coin, a separate receptacle for the coins, and a separate compartment for ice, positioned in proximity to the aforesaid bottle compartment.

13. In a bottled drink vending machine, the

combination of a main casing and cover,

said casing and cover containing non-heat conducting material, a plurality of bottle supply compartments, a plurality of bottle receiving compartments, an ice chamber interposed between said plurality of compartments', a bottle chute positioned in align- 'ment with eachof the receiving compartments and adjacent the top edge of the adjacent Wall of the supply compartment, means for the delivery of one bottle at a time into the said chute, means for the delivery of the bottle to a position accessible to the customer for uncapping and Withdrawing its contents and returning the empty bottle to the receiving compartment aligned beneath.- Y

14:. In combination with the apparatus described in claim 13, coin operated locking means nominally lockingthe mechanism for delivering the bottles from the supply compartment to the discharge chute, said means being released by the weight of a predetermined coin to permit the operation of the device for the discharge of one bottle at a time, and means for permittin the customer to manually actuate the ottle discharging apparatus on deposit of the aforesaid coin.

JAMES H. CARRULL. 

